De Vriendt, Kevin (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Seawater intrusion presents one of the most unique and ubiquitous groundwater problems in the field of hydrogeology. Its complex boundary conditions coupled with variable density flow results in non-uniform ...
Miranda Briones, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
Tree rings play a relevant role for the reconstruction of climatic variables on centuries or millennia-scale. In the presence of anthropogenic climate change, and in the absence of extensive meteorological ...
Gasparini, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
CO2 geological storage is considered one of the options technologically viable in order to decrease the industrial emissions of this gas species that strongly contribute to the greenhouse effect in the ...
Ivanova Téneva, Elitsa (Date of defense: 2020-02-28)
This thesis has been focused on optimizing the resistent capacity and reducing the permeability of fine and clay granular soils through the MICP (Microbiologically induced calcite precipitation). MICP ...
Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)
This work is the result of more than eight years during a bachelor thesis, a master thesis, and the Ph.D. thesis dedicated to the development of the Microwave Interferometric Reflectometer (MIR) instrument. ...
Soler Sagarra, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2020-07-28)
The study of transport of reacting solute through aquifers is relevant in many engineering fields. Reactive transport (RT) is complex because it consists of two phenomena, solute transport and chemical ...
Herms Canellas, Joan Ignasi (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
This thesis has aimed to improve the hydrogeological knowledge of the Port del Comte Massif (PCM), a karstic aquifer system located in the south-eastern sector of the Pyrenees that plays a strategic ...
Herrera, Yago (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)
The study of stellar winds (SW) in the context of X-ray bursts (XRB) performed in this thesis has two main motivating issues. The first is whether or not the heavy elements produced from nucleosynthesis ...
Quirós Collazos, Lucía (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
The present PhD thesis is focused on the paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Pacific Ocean equatorial upwelling conditions, east of the Galapagos Islands, over the last 160.000 years. This region is of ...
Pinzón Ureña, Luis (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
Earthquakes are defined as a "violent shaking of the Earth's crust and mantle, caused by forces acting inside the Earth". In most cases, these forces are caused by an energy release process generated ...